On November 5, 2026, consumer-AI company JoyoLabs launched Oraku — a web studio that turns a photo, a short text prompt, or a trending template into a ready-to-post vertical clip in well under a minute, priced on credits and aimed at broad creator adoption.
2026-11-05 · by Moe Ameen
On November 5, 2026, JoyoLabs, Inc. — a consumer-AI company — launched Oraku, a web-based AI video generator, from a San Francisco dateline. The pitch is speed, price, and simplicity: start from a template, add a photo or a few words, and download a clip the site describes as "ready to post," with no filming, editing software, or technical skill required. Oraku says a generation finishes in "well under a minute." "AI video shouldn't be expensive, slow or complicated," said Cihat Imamoglu, founder and CEO of JoyoLabs, in the launch announcement.
Oraku runs on third-party video models rather than its own — the launch names H3 Max and Seedance 2.5 as the models underneath, and says new models will be added as they ship. In the studio, the default generation settings shown are a 9:16 vertical frame, a 5-second duration, and 768p output; inputs include a text prompt, an image (image-to-video), or your own video of roughly 5 to 30 seconds. The entry point for image-to-video is at oraku.com/try.
Templates are the headline feature for broad adoption. Oraku ships a library of around 40 trend templates — organized into swaps, scenes, effects, styles, and pictures — with featured starter trends like dropping yourself into a supercar scene or turning a pet photo into a playful clip, and the team says it adds new templates weekly based on what is trending. Pricing is credit-based: each generation shows its credit cost before it starts, credits are automatically returned if a generation fails, and the homepage mentions free clips to start. JoyoLabs did not publish specific dollar figures at launch, describing Oraku only as "one of the most affordable ways" to make AI video; it says it plans to expand to more formats and use cases over time.
One clarification worth making, because search results blur them: JoyoLabs' Oraku (oraku.com) is a video generator and is unrelated to "Oráku Smart AI" (orakusmartai.com), an unrelated AI assistant app.
The useful read on Oraku is that it collapses the cost of a single clip, which pushes the real work downstream. A five-second vertical with no captions, no brand look, and no plan behind it is raw material — the part that decides whether it earns reach is what happens after the download, and that is where [Kompozy](/) lives. Act on the launch today: generate a trend clip in Oraku while the trend is hot, then pull it into Kompozy as source footage and build the actual post around it instead of letting it die in your downloads folder.
Concretely, drop the Oraku clip into Kompozy as the base for a [Clipped Short](/glossary/clipped-short) or as the demo footage behind a 4-second HeyGen avatar hook in a Marketing Short, with captions burned in word-by-word for muted feeds and the frame reframed to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9 so one clip fits every platform. The same beat then fans into a brand-exact [HyperFrames](/glossary/hyperframes) carousel, a [Quote Graphic](/glossary/persona-tweet), a blog post, and a newsletter — all held to one [Persona Brief](/glossary/persona-brief) voice so a novelty clip reads as your brand, not a random meme. [Autopilot](/glossary/autopilot) then schedules the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email behind a per-post review gate. Oraku makes the clip cheap; Kompozy makes it count.
Oraku is a web-based AI video generator launched on November 5, 2026 by JoyoLabs, Inc., a consumer-AI company whose founder and CEO is Cihat Imamoglu. It turns a photo, a short text prompt, or a trending template into a short vertical clip in under a minute, running on third-party video models (the launch names H3 Max and Seedance 2.5).
JoyoLabs did not publish specific dollar figures at launch, describing Oraku as "one of the most affordable ways" to make AI video. Pricing is credit-based: each generation shows its credit cost before it starts, credits are returned if a generation fails, and the site mentions free clips to start. Confirm current pricing on oraku.com.
Oraku makes short, shareable vertical clips (studio defaults are 9:16, 5 seconds, 768p) from a photo, a prompt, a template, or your own short video. It downloads a finished clip but does not add captions, reframe for other feeds, enforce a brand voice, or schedule and publish — those steps are on you, or on a content engine like Kompozy.
Bring the Oraku clip into Kompozy as source footage: it builds a Clipped Short or uses the clip as demo footage behind a Marketing Short hook, burns in word-synced captions, reframes to 9:16, 1:1, and 16:9, and fans the same beat into a carousel, a quote graphic, a blog, and a newsletter in one brand voice — then Autopilot schedules the set across the eight social platforms plus blog and email.